Except for the tired 'estranged daughter' subplot, really enjoyed it

Couldn't the writer have come up with something that hasn't been done to death in the last half-decade from The Wrestler to Crazy Heart?

That said, Jude Law really gets into his cockney megalomaniac role with gusto, did the monologues justice, and I was thoroughly entertained throughout. Though it looks like this is one of the UK movies that slips beneath the Academy's notice come nomination time, Jude should really be proud of himself. This and the Sherlock Holmes movies mark a career renaissance for an actor who was always a little too pretty and arrogant in his younger years to be an A-list star. The passage of time has allowed him to find his true strengths.